John Ralston Saul

Photo: Don Denton

John Ralston Saul was born on 19 June 1947 in Ottawa. He received his B.A. from McGill University in 1969 and his Ph.D. from King's College, University of London in 1972. He created an investment firm in Europe in 1973 and managed it until 1976 when he returned to Canada. Saul has worked as a policy advisor for Petro-Canada and as secretary, vice-president, and president of the Canadian branch of PEN. He is an active public speaker and serves on several advisory boards. Saul is married to Adrienne Clarkson, former Governor General of Canada, and lives in Toronto.

Books by John Ralston Saul

1977

The Birds of Prey (novel, also published as Mort d'un Général)

1983

Baraka; or The Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor of Anthony Smith (novel)

1986

The Next Best Thing (novel)

1988

The Paradise Eater (novel)

1992

Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (non-fiction)

1994

The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense (non-fiction)

1994

De si bons Américains (novel)

1995

The Unconscious Civilization (non-fiction)

1997

Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century (non-fiction)

2000

On Equilibrium (non-fiction)

2005

The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World (non-fiction)